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Starting off a snowy morning with a cd that I used to play to death but have neglected for a few years. It’s the amazing 1960 band of Charles Mingus with Bud Powell sitting in for one piece. Hard to top the ensemble and the compositions really allow for the incredible stretched out performances. Charles Mingus “Mingus at Antibes” Atlantic cd Charles Mingus – bass, piano Ted Curson – trumpet Eric Dolphy – alto saxophone, bass clarinet Booker Ervin – tenor saxophone Dannie Richmond – drums Bud Powell – piano “I’ll Remember April” Recorded 13 July 1960, Antibes, France

Ted Brown - Preservation (Steeplechase)

With Lucinda I'm re-watching Project Runway All Stars (season 2 currently, we'll re-watch them all). I'll have the house to myself for a spell today, hoping to watch the new Fantastic Four movie on Blu-ray.

Okay, from above, seems someone got to hear it and form an opionion...maybe that sombody could be kind and rewind and send it back to Blue Note....

ACE! Thinking of you!

Really missing this dude, brilliant guitarist, I hate how Kiss (i.e., Paul and Gene) turned Kiss into a business (I want to believe even Paul didn't agree to turning Peter and Ace into employees, I think it was always Gene's motive, fucking greedy bastard) in which Ace and Peter loss millions of dollars, they rightfully deserved. To Ace, imo the true talent behind Kiss. Cover art is a little...but a brilliant record...thank you Ace!!!

'Lost' could mean a lot of things, e.g. a tape being sent for evaluation and never returned out of absent-mindedness. Joel Dorn was known to misplace tapes, for example. I doubt they would send out the only copy, but you never know.

I've watched it last week - it is very good, illuminating background to how the scene evolved in Detroit and some good clips and interviews. I was amazed when I did the search to find it already on Prime in the UK. Having watched, I now need to delve back into Mark's fine book.

Not any worse than Dan Grissom with Jimmie Lunceford. And I don't think it is so much a matter of being a "purist". Even tearjerkers can be swung (in a way). But I guess they were part of the repertoire (dictated by popular tastes back then) of the big bands (Black ones included) that they did play at live dates but that otherwise never got recorded (waltzes, etc.).

I will watch it soon!

I agree, this has very often been the case, and the rule rather than the exception. There are countless reissues that reproduced the facsimiles of the front and back covers of the originals but often have a few lines with personnel and recording dates added somewhere (wherever there remained some free space) in the original layout of the back cover. And I do not even count the number of original (or very early rpressing) LPs where I've added the recording dates in pencil (so erasable ) on the back cover somewhere near the lineups. As for "new jazz", I cannot really comment because there is not much brand new jazz releases I am buying. But overall, among those I did buy (most often CDs) I'd say it's about 50% with and without recording dates. But indeed the recording studio always seems to be mentioned (and the recording dates - if indicated - buried somewhere nearby), as well as the lists of thanks to a milion people out there.

December 10 Franco Ambrosetti - 1941

In two consecutive days, we've lost two of the most important Spanish rock musicians, two icons, two excelent musicians, vocalists and composers, as well as probably our best representatives of "sex, drugs and rock'n'roll". May you rest in peace, motherfuckers! Jorge Martínez (70) from Ilegales Robe Iniesta (63) from Extremoduro

Sounds like Kelley should've consulted you. Meanwhile...

Love to here the Shorter! But it has been implied the McLean date is in sombody's hands, like somebody's great uncle who was a Knight's Templar has a copy.

It’s odd that it hasn’t even been reissued in vinyl.

Got a nice plug from Evan Iverson on Substack today.

Jay Kelly - Netflix

Chad Powers - HULU

That was awesome.

Yes. It has circulated.

For new jazz, the labels that I buy from tend to be Blue Note, Smoke, ECM, and a lot of small often artist-controlled labels. In every case, I would say the precise recording dates are the exception rather than the rule. What you say about Columbia and Concord is spot on, but it would seem that most reissues of the music include this information. So the information was documented but maybe not included on original LP covers. Today I wonder if a lot of this information is not being documented for posterity at all.

Over the last four weeks we attended a series of concerts during the Wiesbadener Bachwochen, a bi-annual festival. This year there was an enlarged program to celebrate 50 years of its existence. to much to pay for all, but we picked some jewels. The Italian ensemble Zefiro played wind sonatas for the Dresden court by Fasch, Heinichen, Zelenka and others. Absolutely cinvincing and enganging performances. Its leader, oboist Alfredo Bernardini, conducted a program of orchestral pieces of the Dresden orchestra with students of the period performance branch of the Frankfurt music Academy, which they aptly call Capella Academica Frankfurt. One has to keep in mind that the Dresden orchestra between 1700 and 1750 was one of the three best in Europe, and these young people now play that demanding stuff flawlessly! The director of the branch, Eva Maria Pollerus, played three and a half hours of Bach last Saturday, all of Clavierübung I & II. The harpsichord was a reconstructed model by Harass in Thuringia built by Jürgen Ammer in 2007, a type of instrument that Bach played. Absolutely stunning sound, and perfect performance Everybody thinking it is appropriate to play these Partiutas on a modern piano should get an opportunity to hear this and be convinced that it is not. The sound with multiple regsitration of four sets of strings - 16", 8", 8", 4" - was fascinating.

Gang -- the film that I wrote and co-produced is now streaming on Prime Video. Hope all of you can find the time to watch. I think folks will dig it.